Flood regime and vegetation flood tolerance interact to influence tree growth in riverine landscapes. We studied tree growth in floodplain and upland forests of theWisconsin River. About a century ago, levees set back from the river were constructed on this floodplain. The levee restricts some floodplain area from overbank flood events, but leaves a portion of active floodplain still inundated ...

This article discusses the levee failure that occurred on 6 December 2020 at Castelfranco Emilia, near Modena (Italy), showing it cannot be explained without assuming presence of local heterogeneities or a small cavity. The possible these defects is supported by evidence derived from historical data and site observations. Fully coupled hydromechanical finite element simulations prove river emba...

Animal burrows in a river's earthen levee leads to water piping phenomena causing structural damage and eventual collapse during floods. Currently, the state of art comprises case studies that deal with management maintenance, while very few documents attempt at assessing possible animal-induced failure mechanisms. For latter, detection characterisation animal is crucial Electrical Resistivity ...